Patti Scialfa

29
Jul
2024

Again…….MONDAY…….ugh

Today is Territory Day, a public holiday in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands. The day commemorates the islands becoming a French Overseas Territory on this day in 1961.

Wallis and Futuna is a French Island Collectivity located in the South Pacific situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast. Mata Utu is its capital and largest city. The territory’s land area is 142.42 km2 (54.99 sq mi). It had a population of 11,151.

The islands became a French protectorate at the end of the 19th century, before being annexed by France in 1917, becoming a colony, under the authority of New Caledonia.

In 1959, the inhabitants of the islands voted to become a French overseas territory, effective on July 29th 1961, thus ending their subordination to New Caledonia.

Today is the birthday, in 1953, of American singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa who has worked with The Rolling Stones and on Keith Richards’ Talk Is Cheap album. She toured with Bruce Springsteen Band from the 1984 Born in the USA tour and later married Springsteen on June 8th 1991. She has released two solo albums. Scialfa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Here are Bruce and Patti in this wonderful song that has special meaning for us older couples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlZcFuAXmI

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music
29
Jul
2021

The first THURSDAY after yesterday

Signsssss

Buggy

An old hillbilly farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully.

From morning til night (and sometimes later), she was always complaining about something.

The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule. He tried to plow a lot.

One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field.

He drove the old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his lunch.
Immediately, his wife began pestering him. Complain, nag, nag; it just went on and on.

All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet; caught her smack in the back of the head. Killed her dead on the spot.

At the funeral several days later, the minister noticed something rather odd. When a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he would listen for a minute, then nod his head in agreement; but when a man mourner approached him, he would listen for a minute, then shake his head in disagreement.

This was so consistent, the minister decided to ask the old farmer about it. So after the funeral, the minister spoke to the old farmer, and asked him why he nodded his head and agreed with the women, but always shook his head and disagreed with all the men.

The old farmer said, “Well, the women would come up and say something about how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I’d nod my head in agreement.”

“And what about the men?” the minister asked. “They wanted to know if the mule was for sale.”

Today is the birthday, in 1953 in Asbury Park New Jersey, of Patti Scialfa, singer and songwriter. She worked with the Rolling Stones and Keith Richards on the Talk is Cheap album. In 1984 she joined the E Street Band a few days before the opening of their Born To Run tour. In 1991 she married Bruce Springsteen. There are not a lot of videos of the two of them playing together, but I found this one recorded in Dublin with The Sessions band.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies